President Obama's budget director Jack Lew in a Sunday opinion piece outlined some off the “tough choices” Obama is willing to make to cut spending in his 2012 budget request due out on Feb. 14.
... In total, the $775 million in detailed cuts fall far short of demands by congressional Republicans and will do little toward tackling the deficit, which is estimated to be $1.5 trillion this year by the Congressional Budget Office. The cuts are in addition to a five-year spending freeze which the administration says will save $400 billion over the next decade.(link)
I want to cry, but this is just so silly I can't help but laugh. Obama has just slapped the Republicans and any of his critics in the face...
No wait he didn't slap them - he pooped on their faces and started dancing an Irish Jig over them in defiance...
Ya that visual is a lot more like it...
After all of Obama's conversion rhetoric... He was a changed man we were told... HE WAS EVEN READING A REAGAN MEMOIR!... He would even make cuts in the size of government would you believe!...
And what does he do?
He proposes a huge, massive, jaw dropping 0.02% cut in spending.
Sorry that's a 0.02% cut on top of the 1% a year reduction in future spending!
Obama must've had a former career as a comedian, if not he should think about it!